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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has received a long-awaited Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report whose findings show that his father, the country's first president, presided over a government responsible for numerous human rights violations, including political assassinations and illegal allocation of land.The report released late Tuesday also finds that two former presidents, Daniel Arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki, who succeeded the late Jomo Kenyatta, presided over governments responsible for massacres, economic crimes and large-scale corruption, among other violations.Kenya's truth commission was formed as part of a reform process aimed at preventing a repeat of the 2007-08 post-election violence in which more than 1,000 people were killed.A 2008 government commission found historical injustices such as unequal land distribution were partly responsible for the violence....
Hundreds of people fearing a government backlash over the killing of at least 32 police officers are fleeing their homes in northwestern Kenya as the military prepar...
Suspected cattle thieves hid on a high hill and ambushed and killed at least 34 police officers pursuing them over the weekend in northwestern Kenya, a gruesome and ...
Waving her walking cane and smiling broadly, the step-grandmother of Barack Obama celebrated Wednesday as this tiny Western Kenyan village danced and rejoiced after ...
Kenya's president has vetoed a move by the country's parliament to award legislators bonuses of up to $110,000 at the end of their term next year.President Mwai Kiba...
It's the biggest cash prize available to former leaders of African countries, and no one was worthy this year — again.The Mo Ibrahim Foundation announced Monday that...
More than 200 people have died since January in several separate clashes that follow the pattern of pre-election violence that Kenya has experienced in most election...
Muslims should avoid planned protests Friday over the killing of a hardline Islamist preacher whose death sparked deadly riots in Kenya's second largest city, religi...
Leaders from the across the religious divide have urged Muslims to call off planned protests Friday over the killing of a hardline Islamist preacher whose death spar...
Kenyan authorities should expand investigations into the alleged roles of four politicians in clashes in the country's southeast which killed 110 people in three wee...
Here is a list of some of the foreign dignitaries who are already confirmed as attending the London Olympics:Albania: Prime Minister Sali BerishaAlgeria: Prime Minis...
Rebecca Kerubo, a $6-a-day security guard at a Nairobi mall, is one of the city's countless low-wage slum residents. So when she made a formal complaint that Kenya's...
Looking ahead to Kenya's national vote in March, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday warned leaders and citizens in the East African nation no...
The Rev. Joshua Kimuyu pointed where his church floor is broken and black, a scar from an attack five years old. More than 200 young men armed with crude weapons sto...
A slow ballot count in Kenya's presidential election raised questions Tuesday about the election process, but it was the more than 325,000 "spoiled ballots" that eme...
On Monday Kenya holds a presidential election for the first time since more than 1,000 people were killed and 600,000 displaced because of ethnic tensions and violen...
Kenya's crucial elections were marked by violence Monday.Separatists armed with guns, machetes and bows and arrows launched attacks that killed 19 people on Kenya's ...
One of four prominent Kenyans charged with involvement in crimes including murder and deportation following disputed elections wants the International Criminal Court...
International Criminal Court prosecutors plan to call dozens of witnesses to build their cases against four prominent Kenyans charged with involvement in a deadly wa...
Legislators in Kenya have voted themselves a hefty pay package in a late-evening vote on the last day of session before national elections.The bill, voted on Wednesd...